#grief

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#because #changing #gets #grief #heart

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#child #felt #grief #i #kind

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#beauty #cherishing #grace #grief #hurt

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#counselor #did #driving #elected #famous

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

#dead #excess #grief #injury #know

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #consider #gloom #god #grief

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion. ↗

— Jodi Picoult The Storyteller

#grief #loss #death

Grief is a process, not a state. ↗

— Anne Grant

#process #state

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. ↗

— Erin Gray

#child #constantly #dealt #grief #had